MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
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by Jorge Consiglio
(Charco Press, £9.99)
ARGENTINA has a long and rich tradition of high-calibre short-story writers, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Samantha Schweblin among them.
They all have in common a natural capacity to depict the everyday in ways that reveal hidden truths, sometimes exposing the violent forces of nature, the ambiguities of social relationships or the full power of human obsessions.
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